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Diplomates, 4 acts, 3 hrs. (2oc) 

Down in Dixie, 4 acts, 2 hrs. 
30 min , (25c) 

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From Sumter to Appomattox. 
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miu 

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45 min 

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My Wife's Relations, 1 hr 

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15 min 7 3 

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hrs. 20 min 8 3 

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BadJob,30min 3 2 

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Blind Margaret, musical, 30 m. 3 3 

Borrowing Trouble, 25 min ... . 3 5 

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Bumble's Courtship, sketch, 

18 min 1 1 

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Country Justice, 15 min..... .. 8 

Cow that Kicked Chicago, 20 

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Dutchman in Ireland, 20 min. 3 

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Hans Von Smash, 30 min 4 3 

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Initiating a Granger, 25 min. .. 8 0' 

In the Dark, 25 min 4 2 



T. S. DENISON, Publisher, 163 Randolph St., Chicago. 



BABY COACH PARADE 



A SKETCH 



By 

LEVIN G. TEES 



CHICAGO 

T. S. DENISON, PuBLiSKER 
163 Randolph St. 



^9 

BABY COACH PARADE. 



charactp:rs. 



Jimmy Jumper. Mrs. Jumper No. 1. Mrs. Jumper No. 2, 
Uncle Eustus. Claude Dashaway. Jakey. 



Time of playing fifteen minutes. 



STAGE DIRECTIONS. 



R means right of the stage; (7 centre; R C right centre: 7y left; R 
D right door; L D left door, etc.; 1 £^ first entrance; fAi? upper 
entrance, etc.; D i^'door in flat (back of the stage); 1 O first groove, 
etc. The actor is supposed to be facing the audience. 



Clock striking may be done by boy outside, real clock on mantel. 



Copyright, 1894, by T. S. Denison. 
TMP96-006791 



THE BABY COACH PARADE. 



Scene. — Parlor in Jimmy Jumper's 7iou8e at Ashury Park. A large 
window at back, practical, wide enough to display the jjai'ade as it 
passes in the rear. Scene set in 3d G., backed by landscaj^e view in 4 
G.; door R. 2 E., door L. 1 E.; closet or alcove covered by curtains to 
admit man, R. 3 E. Large round reading table C, wit?i chairs R. 
and L. Sofa L. U. E. Pictures on loall, etc. 

Enter Claude Dasiiaway, R. 2 E. 

Claude. I love that woman and will win her or perish in the 
attempt. I have tracked her all the way from New York down here 
to Asbury Park. But where is she? {Looks off L. 1 E.) Aha! she 
comes, and with her husband, confound him. I must conceal 
myself. {Hides in closet, R. 3 E. Peeps out.) 

Enter cit L. 1 E. Jimmy Zx^iav'&'K, followed by Mrs. Jumper No. 2. 

Mrs. J. No. 2. {Clinging to him.) Jimmj', must j^ou go? 

Jimmy. I must darling; it is me duty. Dress rehearsal at the 
Asbury Park Dramatic Association is called at three, and I have to 
make up in my new costume. We are to produce m}' new drama, 
"The Tramp's Revenge." I'm the tramp. As soon as I get my 
make up on I'll come over and let you see how I look. (Claude 
pokes head out of closet and sneezes.) My dear, you have a cold. 

Mrs. J. No. 2, Jimm3% it wasn't me. It was the clock. 

Jim. That clock wants oiling. Whj% as I live, there comes Uncle 

Eustus. 

Enter Uncle Eustus, R. 2 E. 

Jim, and Mrs. J. Why, Uncle Eustus! 

Uncle Eustus. Yes, it's Uncle Eustus. dlad to see me, eh? 
Well, well, that is right. I have been away fourteen months — 
fourteen months passed in hopeful expectancy. {Looks around.) 
Well, where is he? 

Jim. and Mrs. J. Where is who? Uncle. 

Uncle. Who— the boy? 

Jim. What boy? 

3 



4 THE BABY COACH PARADE. 

Uncle. Oh, pshaw! No boy? The girl, then. I suppose I'll have 
to content myself with a girl. 

Mrs. J. No. 2. Girl! what girl? 

Uncle. Come, come, come! No funny business with me. You 
remember, nephew, I went away with the distinct understanding 
that when I returned there would be a little boy here to perpetuate 
the race of Jumper. Now, don't say you forgot it, for you haven't. 
Where is the boy? Where is your little son and heir? I want him. 
This is to be a great day at Asbury Park. I learned all about it the 
moment the train stopped. There is to be a baby coach parade, and 
our little darling is to lead the procession if I push the perambulator 
myself. 

Jim. But, uncle, really it was an impossibility. 

Uncle. Fire and fury! Here I've set my heart on being in that 
baby coach parade, and this is what comes of it. Degenerate viper! 
I brush the dust of your house from my feet, and never again shall 
this old bald head pass j^our portal. Jimmy Jumper, good-bye for- 
ever! {Rushes out R. 2 E.) 

Jim. Well, well, I am sorry uncle is angry, but really I think he 
is unreasonable. My dear, if there's to be a baby coach parade we'll 
have to raise our Hag in honor of the event. ;^Here, precious, go and 
get your flag. {Kisses Iter.) 

Claude. {From closet.) Break away! break away! 

Mrs. J. No. 2. Jimmy Jumper, that closet is haunted. I wont 
remain another minute in the house. {Exit Mrs. J. No. 2 X. IE.) 

Jim. That closet haunted. Nonsense! She believes in ghosts. I 
don't. Why, as Shakespeare says: 

" 'Tis now the witching time of night 
When graveyards yawn — " 

Claude reaches out of closet and stiHkes Jimmy witJi bladder; Jimmy 
goes spinning around and sinks on his knees in an attitude of prayer. 

Jim. Help! help! 

Mrs. Jumper No. 1 comes rushing in, R. 2 E. 

Mrs. J. No. 1. {Laughs derisively.) Help! Well you may cry for 
help, Jimmy Jumper. For look! I have found you at last here in 
the house of another woman — the house that should be mine. You 
thought when you procured that Dakota divorce that would be the 
last you ever see of me; but I've hunted you down and brought with 
me your boy. 



THE BABY COACH PARADE. 5 

Jim. My boy ! my boy ! 

Mrs. J. No. 1. Oho! You didn't know, then, there was a boy. 
He was born after you left me, and unless you come down with the 
needful I'll bring him here and deposit him in your wife's lap. 

Claude. {In closet.) Hoorah! 

Jim. Confound that ghost ! 

Mrs. J. No. 1. Do you hear me? The boy is outside. Shall I 
bring him in? {Goes to R. 2 E.) 

Jim. {Clingmg to her.) Don't do it. You'll ruin me. My Wife 
don't know I was ever married before, and if she discovers the truth 
she 11 never sew another button on my shirt. 

Mrs. J. No. 1. Then come down with the dust. 

Jim. I've only got fifty cents in my clothes. 

Mrs. J. No. 1. Give me that. {He gives it.) In an hour I'll be 
back for the other fifty cents, and if it is not forthcoming back 
comes the child. {Rushes out R. 2 E.) * 

Claude. {From closet in deep supernatural voice.) Back comes the 
child. 

Jim. Spooks! {Rushes out L. 1 E.) 

Claude. {Comes from closet.) Now, if I can only frighten that 
fellow to death, in six months I'll marry the widow, and then — 
{Noise outside L. U. E.) Hello! {Rushes hack and re-enters closet.) 

Jakey Jumper, a ragged tramp, is seen at windoio C. coming from L. 
Disappears R. after inspecting room and presently enters R. 2 E. 

Jakey. Well, here is a go. There is nobody around. I wonder 
if there is anything worth stealing. {Picks up books, etc.) 
Claude. {In closet.) Drop that. {J akky darts under table.) 

Enter Mrs. Jumper No. 2 L. 1 E. She espies Jakey under table, and 
mistaking him for her husband in his theatrical disguise, takes him by 
the ear and pulls him from under the table. 

Mrs. J. No. 2. Oh, no; my darling, you may be a splendid actor, 
but you can't deceive me that you are a real tramp. 

Jakey. Come, let go, let go. You ain't going to holler for the 
police, are you? 

Mrs. J. No. 2. How well you do it. Oh, you darling. {Kisses 
and embraces Mm.) 

Ji^KEY. Well, I swear. 

Mrs. J. No. 2. You'll have plenty of time to eat your dinner be- 
fore the performance begins. See, I have saved it for you. {Removes 



6 THE BABY COACH PARADE. 

cloth, discovers dinner on table. Pushes .Takey into a chair and places 
mctuals before him.) Now, eat the turkey and I'll go and get the ice 
cream, {Exit Mrs. Z.^o. 2, L. 1 E.) 

Jakey. She is crazy. This must be a lunatic asylum. But it 
suits me. {Sits doicn and rolls uj) liis sleeves and eats.) 

He-enter Uncle Eustus, B. S E. 

Uncle. Why, Jimmy, what are you doing in them togs? But 
there, never mind, I wont quarrel with you. You must excuse my 
hasty words, my dear nephew, for I didn't mean all I said. There, 
shake hands and forgive me. I'll give you another chance. If 
you're the father of a baby in half an hour I'll give you ten thousand 
dollars, and there is fifty cents on account. Come, my boy, stir 
yourself.. The parade is starting. {Rushes out R. 2 E .) 

Jakey. Another lunatic. The house is full of them. {Sits at 
table icith back to closet. Prepares to eat. Claude emerges from closet, 
reaches over Jakey, 2^'^cks up turkey, knocks Jakey off the chair with 
it and then disappears with it into closet, Jakey roUinfj about wpsetting 
chairs, etc.) 

Mrs. Jumper No. 1 enters R. 2 E., takes Jakey hij the ear, leads 

him front. 

Mrs. J, No. 1. Come, I've no time to lose. Where is the money".' 
Come; the money or the baby. 

Jakey. Lunatic No. 3. 

Mrs. J. No. 1. The money, I say; the money or I produce the 
child. 

Jakey. What child? 

Mrs. J. No. 1. What child? Your child. {Zky.y.x collapses.) Oh, 
you needn't think I don't know you, Jimmy Jumper, even if you are 
disguised in that beastly fashion. Come, fifty cents, or I bring the 
baby. 

Jakey. {Struck with an idea.) Bring it along. I can get ten 
thousand dollars for it. 

Mrs. J. No. 1. Tremble, wretch, I will bring it. {E.dt Mrs. J. 
No. 1 R. 2 E.) 

Enter Jimmy Jumper L. 1 E., disguised as trampi, made iip as the very 
counterpart of Jakey. 

Jakey. Well, this is the funniest snap I ever struck. (*SV^« Jimmy.) 
Now 1 have got 'em. 

JiMxMY. Have I been drinkinor? 



THE BABY COACH PARADE. 7 

Jakey. I wonder if it is real, or is it a spirit? 

Jimmy. This must be spooks. {They approach each other cau- 
tiously. ) 

Claude. {From closet.) T3reak away. {The two double turn a flip- 
flap backioards.) 

Enter Uncle Eustus. 

Uncle. Now, Jimm}', if you've the bab}' — {sees the tico brothers.) 
Why, what is this? Why, as I live, it is the twin brothers. Jimmy 
Jumper, this is 3'our twin brother, Jakey, stolen by gipsys when a 
child. I read all about it in the Fireside Companion. You will 
recognize him by a strawberry mark in his inside vest pocket. 
{Music outside.) Aha! the baby coach parade approaches. Jimmy 
Jumper, where is that child ? Ten thousand dollars — twenty thou- 
sand dollars— one million dollars for an heir to the Jumper estate! 
{Rushes out R. 2 E.) 

Jakey. I'll have a kid if I have to steal one. 

Mrs. Jumper No. 1 rushes on R. 2 E. 

Mrs. J. No. 1. My child! my child! 

Jakey and Jimmy! Where is your child? Produce it! 

Mrs. J. No. 1. He is gone! An old gentleman snatched him from 
me as he rushed out the door. {Falls fainting into the arms of the 
two brothers.) 

Enter Mrs. J. No. 2, L. IE., carrying a tray with ice cream on it. 

Mrs. J. No. 2. Jimmy, here is your ice cream. {She sees Mrs. J, 
No. 1 embracing Jakey and Jimmy. Drops tray and screams. Noise 
of the ])arade heard outside, icith brass band, etc. Jimmy, Jakey, etc., 
all cry, ^''The baby coach parade!^^ and all rush to the icindow 
Claude, in his effort to see the parade, stumbles and rolls over and over. 
Business ad lib. Great excitement. The parade passes the windoic at 
back preceded by brass band. At the finale Uncle Eustus pushes on 
the perambulator containing a big man made up) like a baby . The per- 
ambulator breaks down, struggle beticeen the baby and Uncle. Grand 
tableaux. 

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CONTENTS OF= NO. 1. 



Keep the Mill A-going (Fine Poem). 

Faces in the Fire ( Fine Poem). 

In School Days (Fine Poem). 

The Two Roads (Fine Prose). 

Extreme Unction. 

Baron Grimalkin's Death (Parody). 

Words and Their Uses (Humorous Poem). 

Fritz's Troubles. 

Two Christmas Eves (Fine Poem). 

Interview Between School Directors and 

Janitor 
To the Memory of the late Brigham Young. 
How Liab and I Parted. 
Old Grimes' Hen (Funny). 
The Average Modern Traveler. 
At My Mother's Grave (Pathos). 
The Newsboy's Debt (Pathetic Poem"). 
Mrs. Potts' Dissipated Husband (Comic). 
I See the Point. 

The Professor in Shafts (Humorous). 
Mr. Sprechelheimer's Mistake (Dialect). 
God's Time. 

The Little Folks' (Thanksgiving Poem). 
The Old Schoolmaster. 
The Revolutionary Rising. 
Pat's Letter (Comic). 
How to Go to Sleep (Comic). 
Nothing (Poem). 
De Pen and De Swoard (Funny). 
A Grey port Legend — 1797, 
The Life Boat is a Gallant Bark. 
Birthday Gifts. 
The Superfluous Man. 
Sockery Setting a Hen (Comic). 
The Water that Has Passed. 
Medley — Mary's Little Lamb 
The Launch of the Ship. 
Aunt Kindly (Fine Pathos). 
Evening at the Farm (Poem) 
Battle of Beal An' Duine. 
Pas.<-ing Away. 
Mark Twain and the Interviewer (Very 

Funny). 



Daybreak. 

True Life. 

Modern Loyalty ("Satiric Poem, Good). 

Unfinished Still. 

Allow for the Crawl (Humorous Poem), 

The Silent Tower of Bottreaux. 

Gentility. 

The Drunkard (Poem). 

The Poetical Patch Quilt. 

What Is Life ? 

Art Thou Living Yet ? (Poem). 

New Year's Chime. 

Song of the Chimney (Comic). 

A Domestic Tempest. 

Common Sense. ,• 

How Mr. Coffin Spelled it (Funny). 

The Old Man in the Palace Car. 

Ego and Echo (Comic Poem). 

A Night Picture. 

A Penitent. 

Rum's Ruin (Fine Temperance Poei«>, 

The Babies (Humorous;. 

What Is It to Me ? 

Our First Commander (Patriotic). 

Horseradish (Comic). 

The Doom of Claudius and Cynthia (F^ft* 

Description.) 
Weaving The Web (Fine Poem). 
Broken Home (Pathetic). 
Dream of Eugene Aram (Poem of Great 

Beauty). 
An Expensive Chicken (Humorous). 
Faithful Little Wife. 
Money Musk (Humorous Poem). 
Resisting a Mother's Love (Fine Patho?». 
Spring (Poem). 

The beacon's Call (Fine Poem). 
The Ghost (Humorous Poem). 
The Bridge. 
Keenan's Charge. 
The Father of His Country (A Play). 



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In the Wrong House, 20 min. . . 

Irish Linen Peddler, 40 min. .. 

Is the Editor in? 20 min 

John Smith, .'JO min :... 

Just My Luck, 20 min 

Kansas Immigrants, 20 rain. .. 

Kiss in the Dark, 30 min 

Larkins' Love Letters, 50 min. 

Limerick Boy, 30 min 

Love and Rain, sketch, 20 m. . 

Lucky Sixpence, 30 min 

Lucy's Old Man, sketch, 15 m. 

Mike Donovan, 15 min 

Misses Beers, 25 min 

Mistake in Identity, sketch, 15 
min .... 

Model of a Wife, 25 min 

Movement Cure, 15 min 

Mrs. Gamp's Tea, sketch, 15 m. 

My .Teremiah, 20 min 

My Lord in Livery, 45 min 

My Neighbor's Wife, 45 min. . . 

My Turn Next, 50 min 

Narrow Escape, sketch, 15 m. . 

Not at Home, 15 min 

On Guard, 25 min 

Persecuted Dutchman, 35 min. 

Pe : of Society, 30 min 

Played and Lost, sketch, 15 m. 

Pull Back, 20 min 

(iuiet Family, 45 min 

Realm of Time, musical al- 
legory, 30 min 

Regular Fix, 50 min 

Rough Diamond, 40 min 

Row in Kitchen and Politician's 
Breakfast, 2 monologues. . . 

Silent Woman, 25 min 

Slasher and Crasher, 1 h. 15 m. 

Squeers' School, sketch, 18 m. . 

Taming a Tiger, 20 min 

That Rascal Pat, 35 min 

Too Much of a Good Thing, 50 
min 

Turn Him Out, 50 min 

Twenty Minutes Under Um- 
brella, sketch, 20 min 

Two Bonnyeastles,4.5 min. ... 

Two Gay Deceivers, 25 min 

Two Gents in a Fix, 20 min. .. 

Two Ghosts in White, 25 min. 

Two Puddifoots, ^0 min 

Uncle Dick's Mistake, 20 min . 

Very Pleasant Evening, 30 m, . 

Wanted a Correspondent, 1 hr. 

Which Will He IMarry ? 30 m . . 

White Caps (The), musical, 30 

Who Told Tlie Lie? ' 30 min '. . '. 
Wide Enougli for Two, 50 min. 
Women of Loweuburg, histori- 
cal sketch, 5 scenes, 50 m. . 
Woman Hater (The), 30 min.. 



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Wonderful Letter, 25 min .... 
Wooing Under Difficulties, 3." 

min 

Yankee Peddler, 1 hr 



ETHIOPIAN FARCES. 

Academy of Stars, 15 min 

All Expenses: Or, Nobody's 

Son, 10 min 

Baby Coach Parade, 20 min. . 
Back from Califoruy ; Or, Old 

Clothes, 12 min 

Deaf, In a Horn, 12 min 

Hamlet the Dainty, 15 min 

Handy Andy, 12 min 

Haunted House, 8 min 

Joke on Squinim (The). 25 m.. 

Jumbo Jum, 30 min 

Mischievous Nigger (The), 20 

min 

No Cure, No Pay, 10 min 

Othello and Desdemona, 12 m. 
Prof. Black's Funnygraph, 15 

min 

Quarrelsome Servants, 8 min.. 

Rooms to Let, 15 min 

Sham Doctor (The), 15 min. .. 

Sports on a Lark, 8 min 

Stage Struck Darky, 10 min. . . 
Stocks Up, Stocks Down, 8m.. 

Tricks, 10 min 

Two Pompeys (The), 8 min 

Uncle Jeff, 25 min , 

Unhappy Pair (An), 10 min. . . 
Villikensand His Dinah. 20 m. 
Wax Works at Play, 30 min. . . 
William Tell, 15 min 



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plays is on the whole the )>est se- 
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from time to time. 

Manuscripts, not only of plays but 
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Plays by T. S. DENISON. 

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for amateurs, is attested by their very 
large and increasing sale. 

ODDS WITH THE ENEMY. 

A drama in five acts; 7 male and 4 
female characters. Time, 2 hours. 

SETH GREENBACK. 

A drama in 4 acts; 7 male and 3 fe- 
male Time, i h., 15 m. 

INITIATING A GRANGER. 

A ludicrous farce; 8 male. Time, 25 m. 
WANTED, A CORRESPONDENT. 

A farce in 2 acts; 4 male, 4 female. 
Time, 45 m. 

A FAMILY STRIKE. 

A farce,, 3 male, 3 female. Time, 20 m. 
TWO GHOSTS IN WHITE. 

A humorous farce, boarding school 
life; S female characters. Time, 25 m. 

THE ASSESSOR. 

A humorous sketch; 3 male and 2 fe- 
male. Time, 10 m. 

BORROWING TROUBIiE. 

A ludicrous farce; 3 male and 5 fe • 
male. Time, 20 m. 

COUNTRY JUSTICE. 
Amusing country lawsuit ; S male 
characters. (May admit 11.) Time, 15 m. 
THE PUIili-BACK. 
A laughable farce; 6 female. Time, 
20 m. 

HANS VON SMASH. 
A roaring farce in a prologue and one 
act; 4 male and 3 female. Time, 30 m. 

OUR COUNTRY. 

A patriotic drama. Requires 10 male ^ 
Sfemale. (Admitsiini. 15 f.) Four fine 
tableaux. Time about i hour. 

THE SCHOOLMA'AM. 

A brilliant comedy in 4 acts; 6 male, 5 
female. Time i hour, 45 m. 

THE IRISH LINEN PEDDLER. 

A lively farce; 3 male, 3 female. Time 
40 m. 

THE KANSAS IMMIGRANTS. 

A roaring farce; 5 male, i female. 
Time, 20 m. 

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. 

A capital farce ; 3 male, 6 female. 
Time, 45 m. 




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.a.ri u.nijX UAUGHTER. 

A drama in 3 acts; 5 male and 2 fe - 
male. Time, i hour, 15 m. 

PETS OF SOCIETY. 
A farce; 7 female. Time, 25 m. 
HARD CIDER. 

A very amusing temperance sketch; 4 
male, 2 female. Time, lo m. - 

LOUVA, THE PAUPER. 

A drama in 5 acts; 9 male and 4 fe- 
male characters. Time, i hour, 45 m. 

UNDER THE LAURELS. 

A drama in five acts; a stirring play, 
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THE SPARKLING CUP. 

A temperance drama in five acts; 12 
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THE DANGER SIGNAL. 

A drama; 7 male, 4 female. Time, 2 h. 
WIDE ENOUGH FOR TW^O. 

A farce; 5 male, 2 female. Time, 45 m. 

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Dialogues, Plays, Nuts to Crack, 25c, 
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Dialect Readingrs, humorous, 25c. 

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Dialogues from Dickens. 25c. 

Shadow Pictures, Pantomimes, Tab- 
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Choice Pieces for Little People, 25c. 

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Debater's Handbook, cloth, 50c. 

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